Staff Directory

Staff

John Pletcher

Lead Pastor

John is crazy about connecting with people over delicious coffee. He also enjoys running, watching movies, reading, playing baseball with his boys, and taking long walks with his golden retriever, Brodimus Maximus. John has served as lead pastor at Manor Church since 2009. He is married to Nancy, and they have three sons, Jarod, Joel and Josiah.
Pletch, as friends call him, holds the Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Denver Seminary and the Master of Divinity from Baptist Bible Seminary (PA).

Bryan Gerlach

Executive Pastor

One of Bryan’s favorite things is connecting with new people. He has been serving with the great staff at the church since 2003. Bryan is also a Professional Certified Coach and volunteers around the community in several ways.
Bryan enjoys the outdoors, helping others, and having projects to do.
He is married to Lynn and they have two adult children.

Dan Sigmon

Worship Arts Pastor

Drew Strayer

Pastor of Groups & Care

Drew is passionate about God, his family, and finding ways to connect people with their spot in God’s Kingdom. Drew believes we each have assignments from God and our life journey is to seek to understand who God made us to be and what He made us to do…and be and do those things brings us more fulfillment and challenge than we can imagine!

He has a heart for encouragement and healing those in need of God’s redemption in our church and our community. Drew’s service at Manor focuses on strengthening Life Groups and their leaders, encouraging those in need of care, and leading our Missions focus - from our neighborhood to around the world!

When not serving at Manor, Drew enjoys family game or movie nights at home, hikes and expeditions in the woods and mountains, good coffee, good books, and deep conversations with friends!

Ryan Cobb

Student Groups Pastor

Ryan lives in Washington Boro with his wife and two kids [Ashlie, Aria, Zander]. Originally from Pittsburgh, he graduated from Eastern University [Marketing degree] which is located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He spent the first three years of his career in business and banking. During that time, he volunteered in two church settings: one in Pittsburgh and another in Lancaster (Manor). Specifically, he volunteered in student ministry in these settings. By a calling from God and a good fit in the local church, he accepted a full-time ministry position with Manor in January of 2011.
He has been serving and leading Manor's student ministry since that time and is the Student Ministry Pastor. Ryan is currently studying towards a Masters of Divinity [Mdiv] at Eastern Mennonite Seminary [Lancaster, PA].

What are your favorite things to do? Climbing Gym at Nook Sports. Summer time trips with my wife and kids to anywhere we can swim. House projects. Follow the Pittsburgh Steelers and other sports.
What is your favorite food? Ashlie's homemade chicken parm.
What is your favorite Bible verse? A long time favorite has been and still is 1John 2:17.

Andrea Kahler

Childrens Pastor

Andrea has been in her role at Manor Church since May 2012. She came from the Mid-West and is a Michigan girl at heart! After spending seven years in downtown Chicago to study at Moody Bible Institute, and work at a Korean-American church God moved her out to Lancaster PA to continue working with children!
Andrea is passionate about connecting kids with the gospel of Jesus Christ in fun and engaging ways! It is her hope that each child will know the love of Christ for them personally in very real and tangible ways!

Andrea has been married to David since November 2013, when she also became a step-mom of three terrific boys! In September 2016 they added a sweet baby girl to the ranks! Andrea loves spending time with her family, playing games and drinking loose-leaf tea all day long!

Randi Wolf

Director of Early Childhood Ministries

Randi is a life-long "local" who loves Jesus, her family, her dogs, running, and sweets! She is married to Brent, and together they have 4 children, Tyler, Chloe, Tessa, and Colbi. She finds great joy in connecting with our littlest attenders and working with familes to build a foundation for Christ! In addition to serving as Director for Early Childhood ministries, Randi is a teacher in Manor Preschool's weekday program.

Randi also serves as Director of Celebrate Columbia, a local mission that seeks to serve as the hands and feet of Christ by partnering with people, agencies, and groups in Columbia, Pa. to work towards community change and sharing Christ's love with action.

Jen Enck

Director of Preschool Education

Jen loves preschoolers and has been the Director of Preschool Ministries since 2006.

She is married to Dean and together they have three children, Corinne, Kayla and Hunter.
Both Dean and Jen were born and raised in the Lancaster area. Jen loves to read, spend time in Potter County, and is enjoying the teen and young adult years of her kids.

Christie Hunt

Director of Disability Ministries

Christie enjoys discovering and celebrating the gifts in each person God has created, especially when those gems are mined from the unexpected place of “disability”. She is grateful for the opportunities her role gives her to do that. She likes to find creative ways to make knowing Jesus meaningful for everyone, regardless of the challenges they face.

She is married to Bryan and they are the parents of married children, Brock and Sarah Hunt and Mark and Betsy Cloyd. Christie likes to garden, read and take long walks with her labradoodle, Cayli.

Jourdan Martin

Technical Director

Kelli Risser

Graphic Designer

Kelli was raised in Lancaster County and grew up attending Manor with her family. She started her role at Manor in 2012 as an administrative assistant. Her role has changed and developed during that time with her creative passion in graphic design. She is excited about designing creative communications to help people visually connect, grow and serve at Manor!

Beth Graves

Office Manager

Beth was born and raised in Lancaster County. She has been attending Manor Church since 1985 and began working here as the office manager in 2001.

She married Chuck in 1988, and has an adult stepson, Greg. She enjoys singing in the church choir and the National Day of Prayer choir, cooking/baking, spending time with family and friends, hanging out with her nieces and nephews, all things chocolate, traveling, jewelry, and Turkey Hill diet green tea!

Scott Hess

Facilities Manager

Scott has been a part of Manor since 1968. Scott is married to Julie and has a son Greg. He enjoys camping with his family going for walks, hunting and the great outdoors. He has been part of the facilities team since 2008.